2.2.5pre1: unlink design flaw
Simo Sorce
idra at samba.org
Thu Jun 13 12:14:02 GMT 2002
On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 19:49, jd at epcnet.de wrote:
> > The race stay in the fact that you may rename the file and create a link
> > to an important file between the close and the second unlink, with very
> > bad results.
>
> On smbfs you cannot create links. Nor on fatfs.
But samba runs on posix file systems too, and they have it.
I think smbfs/fat32 can be made posix compliant for this particular
operation and that's the right way to go IMO.
--
Simo Sorce
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